Sandvoort , Guyana -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Nine-year old Kayla Hope loves fairy tales , especially `` Cinderella . ''

`` It 's got a lot of rats ! '' she giggles , burying her face in her hands . They 're her favorite part .

Until now , she 's never read a book .

She would have had to walk two miles to the closest library before . Now she will wo n't have to make that long trek , because her village in Guyana built a community library .

`` It 's something that they wanted for so many years , and they just had no idea how to start , '' said Matt Cusimano , a Peace Corps volunteer and a teacher at the primary school in Sandvoort , a village of nearly 200 people .

Cusimano has taken on the challenge of creating a library with the villagers . Since starting , he 's been working with few resources . Many students are roughly three years behind their expected reading level .

`` There 's no such thing as literature or fun reads or junior novels or any of those sorts of things , '' Cusimano said . `` They are growing up in an education system of chalk and talk -- where the teacher writes something on the chalkboard and talks about it . They write something on the board -LRB- and -RRB- the students copy it . There 's nothing analytical about it . There 's no such thing as differentiated learning . ''

Cusimano , 25 , said it made sense when the school 's headmaster approached him with the idea for a communal library .

`` Guyana is a performance-based culture , which makes it one of the more appropriate places in this region for a library . ... We are limiting our children 's abilities through ` chalk-and-talk ' methods of teaching . That 's why I was comfortable taking on a library project , '' Cusimano said .

With a budget of roughly $ 5,000 , the community agreed to front nearly 30 % of the costs . But most villagers , Cusimano said , can barely afford toothpaste .

`` They 're doing it with donated labor and donated space because they ca n't afford several thousand U.S. dollars , '' he said .

Some villagers contributed by cooking for hungry workers , while others shelved donated books or painted .

With a daughter in the primary school , carpenter Korth Leitch gave of his time by becoming the construction lead on the project .

`` I was just so happy because it 's an opportunity that -LRB- came -RRB- to her , which never -LRB- came -RRB- to me , '' Leitch said .

By day , Leitch , 33 , ventured out to neighboring areas building homes and by night returned to work on the library .

`` That is where I 'm finding this happiness , grateful pleasure for this library because I know my daughter ... my children -LRB- are -RRB- going to learn a lot from it . They love books . ''

Leitch said the Bible was the only book he was exposed to while growing up .

Better World Books and the nonprofit Margaret Clemons Foundation donated more than 3,600 books to the library . And with three new computers , villagers are anxious to become computer-literate .

`` The -LRB- people of the -RRB- village never had an opportunity to learn about a computer . They never had it . When you are able to read , you 're able to work with a computer . If you do n't know how to read , you ca n't start a computer , '' Leitch said .

In addition to learning about computers , many villagers are discovering new interests .

Ten-year-old Shamar Benjamin comes to the library every night . He gets lost in the fictional battles of `` Pokemon '' and `` Power Rangers . '' He 's encountering words he 's never seen before .

`` It helps me to read better , '' he said .

Such opportunities to learn have changed the village of Sandvoort .

Kayla , the 9-year-old girl , now has books to fuel her imagination .

If you want to donate books for the people of Sandvoort , go to their Facebook page for information or to Better World Books .

For more ways to help others , go to CNN.com / impact .

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Villagers in Guyana work together to build a library with donated books , computers

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Part of a communal dream , some painted , while others shelved donated books

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The Bible was the only book many villagers had ever seen or touched before the new library

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If you want to donate books , go to village 's Facebook page or to Better World Books